RE: [PHP] If value is odd or not
| From: | tedd | Date: | Fri, 02 Jun 2006 15:21:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] If value is odd or not | ||
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At 10:10 AM -0500 6/2/06, Jay Blanchard wrote:
>[snip]
>It's interesting to dangle bait above a pool of programmers and see what
>rises. :-)
>
>There used to be a contest to create the most complicated solution to
>accomplish a very trivial task, like turning on a light switch. However,
>I can't remember what the contest was called -- it was something like
>the FUBAR awards.
>[/snip]
>
>Obfuscation contests! The Rube-Goldberg machines of software design.
Ahhh, yes -- that was it. However, the Rube-Goldberg started with physical machines, like rolling
balls, mouse-traps, levers, and such.
Thanks for refreshing my memory, I would have thought about that all day.
tedd
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